Set Up

You will be asked to login with an existing Amazon account or to register for one:

Launch with one 1-Click will launch the Stardust Runtime on your EC2 Instance Type of choice:

The AWS Virtual Machine Image (AMI) is configured to run on all Instance Types including the Standard Micro (t1.micro) type and your choice depends entirely on the expected load profile. For first experiments the Standard Micro is sufficient.

Please consider that although there are no charges for Stardust, Amazon charges you for most of the EC2 configurations.

Select your data center region of choice - the Stardust AMI is available for all AWS data center regions:

You will be prompted to confirm that you do not want to create a Key Pair:

You need a Key Pair this if you intend to login to operating system of the EC2 instance via Secure Shell (SSH) and modify the setup there, e.g. for

Process Model Creation and Deployment

If you are keen to start playing and do not bother to create your own Process Model at this point, pick one of the sample process models from Git e.g. the Car Rental Example (right-click the link before and save the file) and just upload and deploy under Administration > Model Management (more details here).